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FREEDOM 2.1 enters a totally new dimension for the entire mastering and post-production of your songs,
scores, synchronizations and sound recordings in a mono, stereo or surround environment up to 8.1. The
extremely intuitive and easy-to-use rack functionality gives you immediate access to over 40 premium filters
and effects, including yellow tools‘ sophisticated real-time Impulse Response processor „Origami“ with
many premium IR models and variations (like churches, cathedrals, stages, rooms, halls, etc.) from the
company „INSPIRED ACOUSTICS“, many surround IR files and an audio import option. FREEDOM offers
three independent snapshot slots. You can add an unlimited number of insert effects to each slot and easily
change their order per drag‘n‘drop. Freedom also allows the import of 3rd party VST Effect plug-ins into the
virtual effect rack, so beside all the already included premium filters and effects you can also use your other
VST Effect plug-ins directly inside Freedom. For a most intuitive workflow, the order of your insert effects in
the rack corresponds exactly to the sequence of your audio input signal. Worldwide unique in Freedom 2.1 is
the flexibility of switching between different surround formats: You can change the input and output format of
Freedom 2.1 completely independent from the original input format of your audio file! Generally Freedom 2.1
recognizes the surround format of your host-channel automatically and assigns the input and output format
accordingly. Nevertheless you can assign other surround formats afterwards at any time. With Freedom
2.1 it is possible to extract separate channels of a surround file (any combination is possible), to edit them
afterwards and finally to create a totally new surround format of these channels using the sophisticated
Surround Panner. If you are looking for a powerful virtual effect rack, specially designed for working with
professional surround environments, Freedom 2.1 is all you‘ll ever need!
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FREEDOM 2 TOP FEATURES:
Over 40 premium insert filters and effects for mono, stereo & surround
support of surround formats up to 8.1
automatic surround channel recognition
independent surround format selection for input and output
loads 3rd party VST effects plug-ins
easy-to-use virtual rack functionality
intuitive user interface
three snapshot slots
HOST & MIDI automation
HOST & MIDI learn option
extended real time auto sync
drag‘n‘drop flexibility
unlimited number of insert effects
highly optimized CPU usage
copy/paste support of presets
copy/paste support of snapshots
hundreds of editable presets
cross-platform patch compatibility
cross-host patch compatibility
ORIGAMI - real-time Impulse Response processor incl. many premium IR models and variations
(like churches, cathedrals, stages, rooms, halls, etc.) from the company „INSPIRED ACOUSTICS“
The Freedom TOP-FEATURES in detail:
ORIGAMI & Stage Positioner:
Origami is a high-end real-time engine to use and edit Impulse Response files, developed by yellow tools‘
software developers and audio engineers. In Freedom we integrated Origami including „true stereo“ and
„true surround“ processing. Featured with IR files of the fantastic „INSP:IR Impulse Library“ from Inspired
Acoustics, Origami gives you an amazing listening experience - as if you would be in the room yourself!
To enable you to move your instruments inside the loaded room individually we expanded Origami by
the Positioner feature. After the positioner is activated you can move your audio source - and thus your
instrument - completely free within the loaded room.
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3rd party VST Effect Plug-In Import:
Freedom allows the import an unlimited
number of 3rd party VST Effect plugins
into the virtual effect rack, so beside
all the already included premium filters
and effects you can also use your
other VST Effect plug-ins directly inside
Freedom!
This feature is extremely useful
because it helps you to keep the
overview of your currently used effect
plug-ins in one virtual rack - including
the „save“ option for your entire setup.
Intuitive User Interface:
Freedom impresses with a clear and intuitively operatable user interface.
You can copy and paste your insert filters/effects into the virtual rack at will - and to make it as simple as
possible the order of your insert effects in the rack corresponds exactly to the progression of your audio input
signal.
Unlimited Number Of Insert Effects:
Freedom is based on yellow
tools‘s innovative „Advanced Effect
Technology“ (A.E.T.) that guarantees
lowest CPU usage for all the premium
insert filters and effect and allows an
unlimited number of insert filters and
effects.
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Powerful Surround Tools:
Beside all the premium inserts you may already know from „Independence“, also Freedom comes with 4
powerful surround inserts:
• The „Channel Manager“ automatically shows all available channels of the currently selected output
format:
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The „Surround Panner“ enables you to use stereo, mono and surround audio files in any Freedom
environment.
stereo mode
The „LFE Filter“ to cut high frequencies depending on the selected slope.
The „Satellites HP Filter“ to cut low frequencies depending on the selected slope.
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MIDI & HOST Automation:
Freedom offers MIDI automation with 128 MIDI CCs (Continuous Controller) and host automation with 128
host channels per entity.
To make the assignment of MIDI controllers even easier we integrated next to the manual assignment also a
„midi learn“ function.
Just click on this option in the pull-down menu and move any of your MIDI controller you want to use for the
parameter afterwards. Freedom recognizes the CC number and its position automatically and assigns this
number to the selected parameter accordingly.
The automation of the insert parameters is assignable with the following pull-down menu:
You can view this number in the „midi ctrl #“ menu at any time and of course also change it manually.
The host automation works exactly the same way - you can assign host controller channels both manually
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Freedom - powerful surround features:
Freedom - SURROUND ENVIRONMENT:
ALL insert filters and effects of Freedom are fully surround compatible.
Worldwide unique in the Freedom is the flexibility of switching between different surround formats: You
can change the input and output format of Freedom completely independent from the original input format
of your audio file! Generally Freedom recognizes the surround format of your host-channel automatically
and assigns the input and output format accordingly. Nevertheless you can assign other surround formats
afterwards at any time - here an example:
Your host-channel has the surround format „5.0 DTS“. You only want to edit the three front channels and
finally create a new surround format after your editing. Simply select the input format „3.0 Cinema“ in
Freedom, assign any insert filters and effects you want, and finally select the output format „5.0 Dolby
Digital“.
The „Channel Manager“ automatically shows all available channels of the currently selected output format,
so if you switch from „stereo“
to „5.1 DTS“ the Channel Manager display will switch accordingly:
You can also use the Channel Manager to finetune the volume, delay and output channels of your output
format.
Additionally you can route any channel of your surround format to „L“ (left) and „R“ (right) and thus create a
mix down of your surround format to stereo.
You can see that with Freedom it is possible to extract separate channels of a surround file (any combination
is possible), to edit them afterwards and finally to create a totally new surround format of these channels
using the sophisticated „Surround Panner“. This powerful helper enables you to use stereo, mono and
surround audio files in any Freedom surround environment. Corresponding to the position of the stereo (L
& R), mono (M) or surround (S) icons, new volume settings get calculated for all existing channels of your
currently selected surround format.
You can also assign the radius of the surround panner. The inner orange circle displays the „center“ dB value
and the outer red circle displays the „rear minimum“ dB value of the newly created audio signal.
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stereo mode surround mode
„select“ & „type“ pull-down menus
In the „type“ pull-down menu you can select how to move the audio signal(s).
• free: each audio signal gets moved individually
• x mirror: The audio signals gets mirrored against the x-axis.
• y mirror: The audio signals gets mirrored against the y-axis.
• xy mirror: The audio signals gets mirrored against the x-axis and the y-axis.
• sync: Parallel movement of the audio signals to the x-axis and the y-axis.
If you are working in a surround format that contains a LFE, you can use the „LFE Filter“ to cut high
frequencies depending on the selected slope.
Use the „Satellites HP Filter“ to cut low frequencies depending on the selected slope.
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Freedom - VST IMPORT:
3rd party VST Effect Plug-In Import:
Freedom allows the import of an unlimited number of 3rd party VST Effect plug-ins into the virtual effect rack,
so beside all the already included premium filters and effects you can also use your other VST Effect plug-ins
directly inside Freedom!
This feature is extremely useful because it helps you to keep the overview of your currently used effect plugins
in one virtual rack - including the „save“ option for your entire setup.
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Impulse Response engine for highest demands!
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Freedom - ORIGAMI:
Origami - Powerful & Innovative Impulse Response Processor:
Origami is a high-end Impulse Response processor developed by yellow tools‘ software developers and
audio engineers. Origami is incredibly powerful and any editing or customization of Impulse Response files
and finally the setup of your instruments inside the loaded rooms is possible in real-time!!!
No doubt: Yellow tools Origami gives you an amazing listening experience - as if you would be in the room
yourself!
The sophisticated Independence Impulse Response Processor „Origami“ even manages „true stereo“ (one
multi channel audio file with 4 separate channels) and „true surround“ processing up to 8.1 (one interleaved
audio file with up to 81 separate channels).
Even in „true stereo“ and „true surround“ mode you can still use the „positioner“ feature and the new
„Channel Manager“ insert allows you any custom channel routing to fit your needs.
The following processing is supported:
• mono to: mono | stereo | surround |
• stereo to: mono | stereo | true stereo | surround | true surround |
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surround to: mono | stereo | true stereo | surround | true surround |
The Origami version of Independence includes Impulse Response files from the fantastic „INSP:IR Impulse
Library“ from Inspired Acoustics.
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Contrary to a synthetically produced „Reverb“ the Impulse Response processing of Origami uses real rooms
to for the creation of the reverb. As it were a „fingerprint“ of the acoustic characteristics of a real room is
used. With this fingerprint one can now provide arbitrary acoustic signals. This form of the reverb creation is
also called „convolution reverb“, since during the signal generation the mathematical operation of convolution
is used. This technology is not only limited to simulating rooms, rather each acoustic system can be
simulated. IR technology gets used most frequently in the field of scoring and film synchronisation.
Origami - Selection of the IR file:
When you added Origami as insert effect to your snapshot slot, you can use the „presets“ pull-down menu to
load the already integrated IR files.
The Origami version of Independence already contains a selection of premium surround IR files. Beside the
surround IR files you will also find additional rooms.
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Origami - Editor Mode:
The selected IR model gets loaded and opened in
the editor mode. Here you can customize and edit
your IR file at will.
Origami - Positioner:
To enable you to move your instruments inside the
loaded room individually we expanded Origami
by the Positioner feature. After the positioner
is activated you can move your audio source
completely free within the loaded room... as usual
for Independence in real-time, of course!!!
Origami - file Info:
The „IR file info“ button in the upper left corner
of Origami lets you switch to the info page of the
currently loaded Impulse Response file. Here
you can enter your own notes and you will see
- if available - the location details and additional
author details.
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Freedom - INSERT FILTERS & EFECTS:
EQ INSERTS:
4 Band Parametric EQ • 6 Band Parametric EQ • Vintage 3 Band EQ
FILTER INSERTS:
2D Filter • Filter Follower • X Filter • Multimode Filter • Low Cut Filter • High Cut Filter • LFE Filter •
Satellites HP Filter
DYNAMIC INSERTS:
Compressor • Limiter • Gate
MODULATION INSERTS:
Vinylizer • Phaser • Chorus • Flanger
DISTORTION INSERTS:
Time Clipper • Bit Reduction • Tube Distortion • Dual Band Distortion
DELAY INSERTS:
Sample Delay • Delay • Filter Delay • Doubler • Echo
HELPER INSERTS:
Channel Manager • Calibration • Reference Tone • Metronome • Level Meter • Pan/Width • Phase Invert
• Volume • XY Panorama • Levelmeter Pro • Surround Panner
REVERB INSERTS:
Reverb • Reverb 2
SPECIALS:
Mic Modeler • Cabinet Modeler • Preamp Modeler
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